Building a Bunch of Packages

The are a series of things one must build that take the same route for each build. Example:

You untar the package:

tar xvf package

You change the directory to where it was untarred:

cd packagedir

./configure $XORG_CONFIG

make

make install

In the case of the fonts that need to be built, there are thirty three font packages that have to be built. Luckily we have computers and shell scripts.

I have modified the script in the documentation slightly to fit my needs. First I created a file, called ‘file’, that contains the name of the tar file of the font I want to build. Next I create a directory that contains all of the tar files of those same fonts. Now here is the modified script:

for package in $(grep –v ‘#’ /usr/local/src/blfs/fonts/files)

#Above gets just the name of the compressed tar file

#Example encodings-1.0.4.tar.bz2

do

packagedir=${package%.tar.bz2}

# Above line strips off “.tar.bz2”

tar xvf $package

pushd $packagedir

# Above changes to packagedir, but saves where you came from

./configure $XORG_CONFIG

make

make install

popd

#Above line returns where you came from

Done

And thre you have it. That script will build the thirty-three font packages. This same principle will be used to build Xorg Protocol Headers, as well as, Xorg Applications.